Two projects/efforts already are/are-trying-to do this.
1) LPP - Linux Project Patch. Kernel Patches to give a graphics boot screen
& progress bar during a boot using fbdev.
2) Rapture - (No source release yet - I'm still hacking on it). System to
be run early in init to hide the boot messages, and give you pretty little
boot icons as the system comes up. also uses fbdev.
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From: "John Ryland" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Crossfire" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "Jeff Waugh" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "Sydney
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Sent: Wednesday, January 24, 2001 5:43 PM
Subject: [SLUG] Graphical Bootup - Was: VMWare and LILO configuration
>
> On Wednesday 24 January 2001 15:33, Crossfire wrote:
>
> > > > What's the one RedHat 7.0 uses?
> >
> > No, its still LILO, but with evil evil graphical boot menu hacks!
NOOOOO!
>
> Looks ugly
> I'm sure they could have done better.
>
> I would like to work on making the kernel bootup graphically, not just the
> bootloader. I know it's so Windows like, but I want to do it even better,
you
> know how when KDE2, GNOME and BeOS all start up they have those icons that
> light up as it goes through the startup process, well something like that
> until xdm or a login prompt is reached.
>
> I've already had a go at this and managed to hack the kernel to display a
> full-screen image when it starts instead of a tiny penguin in the corner,
and
> also surpress the printks (not highly recommended :), but it sucks and is
a
> trivial hack. Really needs to be like Windows where if you hit ESC then
you
> see the messages, or even better if it was like Quake where it smoothly
> scrolls down the messages or something like that.
>
> I've thought about how to have those icons light up as the initialisiation
> proceeds. Just write a user-space program to do it in the init scripts.
Could
> even have some kind of cool animation in the same way.
>
> One major problem I can't get around however, is that to change the
initial
> image you have to recompile the kernel. I really want to fix that and
can't
> think of a nice clean way of doing it. Any suggestions?
>
> John
>
>
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